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MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay
Barence writes "In what's turning out to be a bad week for security in the UK, confidential MI6 documents, fingerprints and photos relating to suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists have been found in the memory of the second-hand Nikon Coolpix camera, which was bought on eBay for only £17. The buyer immediately went to the police, who initially treated it as a joke; when they realised he was serious, they swooped on his home and seized his camera and PC. Remember, this is the same MI6 which plans to recruit new members via Facebook, a userbase not exactly famous for its dedication to privacy, security and discretion. The news comes on the back of yesterday's embarrassment over a local council whose VPN device ended up on eBay with confidential login details left on it."
With just 2 people doing this, there would be a whole lot of clean drives going back and forth between them. You need something like a TTL to prevent a complete DoS.
The buyer immediately went to the police, who initially treated it as a joke
I'll just type it up on my invisible typewriter.
"sudo rm -rf your-face"
But then again, in the US they would have tasered him for no reason.
You are badly misinformed. American police do NOT ever, under any circumstances taser people for no reason.
They taser them because it is funny.
He should leave negative feedback. That will teach them a lesson.
Whether or not he got his personal data back is another question, as anyone knows it is the time invested in generating your own data that is the real value in your PC. I hope he had a backup.
It's OK, he can just buy them back when they turn up on ebay ...
Rich.
libguestfs - tools for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images
That depends on your definition of "important". If by "important" you mean, has the most value to the person who received it, then I'd personally have to go with sex vids/pics. Those I can use right away, as often as I want, and then trade to get more nudie pics.
WTF am I going to use nuclear bomb codes for? I'm no longer in the nuclear blackmail business, and all my former henchmen are employed elsewhere. Mostly at Oracle and Microsoft. We still send each other xmas cards, and talk about getting together for a reunion, but it's hard to get all our schedules to line up, especially since most of us have young families now anyway. Back in the day when we were all single, it was easy to commit all our waking hours to work (building a massive underground fortress in a dormant volcano, etc.), but none of us really have the time anymore. Sigh. I guess you really can't go back to the glory days once they're gone.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.